This walk starts in one of London's grandest Victorian cemeteries and ends in one of its best markets, with the Grand Union Canal and a listed brutalist tower in between.
Kensal Green Cemetery is the resting place of Brunel, Thackeray, and Anthony Trollope — serious Victorian company — and its neoclassical monuments and Egyptian Revival gateways make a morning walk here completely justified on architectural grounds alone. The canal east from here runs behind the back gardens of Notting Hill, with Goldfinger's Trellick Tower looming above it before Portobello Road turns up to the right.
